Thoughts

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There’s a narrative that ADHD people have trouble forming habits. I don’t believe it.
I could make this argument in a couple of different ways. The simplest is this: ADHD correlates with a number of symptoms that do it make it difficult to form habits. Also, self-destructive, reoccurring, actions, such as those to which ADHD people are prone, can become habits in themselves. That is to say, I (who may or may not have ADHD), got in a habit of not doing my laundry. (That is, I would try to do laundry every other week, think to myself ‘I hope I can complete the laundry this week’ and then I very very rarely did.) Then I created the Stop Worrying system, starting doing laundry twice as often (half the load size) and I starting getting laundry done. (I also changed my definition of “successfully getting laundry done” so there is some amount of goal-post-moving in there, but that’s part of the Stop Worrying system—how to be happy with what you can get done.)
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